
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
Mary McLeod Bethune is the first Black American to be represented with a state statue in the National Statuary Hall. Her likeness replaces a statue honoring one of the last…
Monday, July 11, 2022 — On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka “The Professor” is joined by special guests Dr. Esther Ojulari and Shawyn Patterson-Howard. Topic…
By overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court has thrown the issue of abortion back to the states – and made it harder for Black and brown women to…
By Glynda Carr — The Supreme Court just dealt a devastating blow to reproductive rights. With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, five Republican-appointed Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court swept…
By Julianne Malveaux — As soon as the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that allowed states, not the federal government to…
Commentary by the Professor Dr. Ron Daniels on the Soap Box: Roe v Wade and the power of the Black vote. An excerpt from the June 27, 2022 edition of…
By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — The NAACP attacked the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and 50 years of precedent allowing women the right to an abortion, which it says will disproportionately affect…
Statement by AAPF — Today, an illegitimate Supreme Court—stacked with radical conservative justices who lied to Congress about their adherence to the precedents confirming our civil and reproductive rights—advanced their…
“The repulsive Supreme Court decision today to overturn Roe v. Wade, the ruling establishing the right to an abortion, has set us back decades. This ruling attacks women’s most basic…
The plan to overturn “Roe” occurs in the context of a larger right-wing backlash that is both gendered and racialized. By Barbara Ransby, Truthout — This latest threat to end…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — Karine Jean-Pierre, whose long career in Democratic communications led her to the podium last year as the second Black woman to hold a…